Upgrading Registration from MPhil to PhD
Extract from University Regulations on Criteria for MPhil
4.2.1 The scope of the thesis shall be what might reasonably be expected after two or at most three years of full-time study.
4.2.2 The thesis shall:
- (a) consist of the candidate’s own account of his/her investigations, the greater proportion of which shall have been undertaken during the period of registration under supervision for the degree; …
- (b) and be either a record of original work or of an ordered and critical exposition of existing knowledge and shall provide evidence that the field has been surveyed thoroughly;
- (c) and be an integrated whole and present a coherent argument;
- (d) and give a critical assessment of the relevant literature, describe the method of research and its findings and include a discussion on those findings;
- (e) and be written in English and the literary presentation shall
- be satisfactory …
- (f) and include a full bibliography and references;
- (g) and shall not exceed 60,000 words; …
- (b) and be either a record of original work or of an ordered and critical exposition of existing knowledge and shall provide evidence that the field has been surveyed thoroughly;